Recent content by direblade99

80% Purity 20% Supremacy Technology is a tool in human hands, not the purpose of human existence. Harmony is just no.

I think that you should probably move up a difficulty level then, since king is a very easy difficulty and you're clearly having no trouble. On the higher difficulty levels you're much more likely to come into conflict with the AI, especially going wide.

I say tradition, it's just generally better anyway, and when combined with the obvious synergies (huge cities with a total of +40% wonder production bonus) it just seems like an obvious choice. The problem with the UB argument is that firstly the UB applies just as well for a small empire...

I didn't actually spawn there, it was one or two tiles to the right on the floodplains where I spawned and I moved.

Just rolled a godlike start, was wondering whether it would be better to settle where I am, or next to the mountain (I'm thinking above the silver to the north)

Are you kidding? That is a god tier start.... River, mountain, lots of hills, 2 wheat. How many times did you reroll?

I want to go purity, sit in a nice fort city, form a nice fort nation, and use the threat of aliens to keep society united and peaceful with eachother.

Unless you're assyria going for an early rush, then killing the city gets you a free tech.

Puppet cities at first, raze unwanted ones, build colluseums everywhere, build courthouses in the cities you annex. If you do annex make sure it's after the city has stopped revolting so you can get a courthouse immediately. Go down order for per city happiness, or autocracy for massive...

Liberty's good because you can get 2 workers from pyramids, 1 from citizenship, and then maybe one or two from neighbours as well before turn 50, with a huge bonus to improvement time, for a total of 4-5. The free settler and production in liberty are great as well. Unfortunately everything else...

If you do get the opener only, do it for the border expansion, not the culture.

I agree that it's bad, but what do you mean it only saves 2 turns?

I don't agree that the pantheon makes fishing boats better than salt, however I do think that it still can be very powerful. I'm currently playing through a game as carthage where on the first roll I had a start with a whopping 5 sea resources and a mountain (there was no river and it was...

Yeah it's not a huge deal, it took me like half a year of civ before I even stopped automating workers, but if you want to gain a quick and early advantage chopping forests is great.

You're crazy man :D Seriously though, chop those as soon as possible when not Iroquois, it speeds up early build times massively